St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-16
THE LATEST NEWS.

The comptroller Of the currency has re
ceived from Bank Examiner Snyder state
ment of the affairs of the Fidelity Nationa
.}ank, of Cincinnati, on the goth ult., thu
late of its suspension. 1t is Said that thu
books of the bank were kept SO loosely tha
It was likely the examination now benz
made would show them to be nearly $5OO,OC'
out of the way.
The United States ship-ofwar 1roquoi:
vas at Panama on May q, and her com
| mander, Leary, sent a communication to the
Navy Department regarding the condition OF
the vessel. Commander Leary says that
her timbers have become SO rotten that the
pivot gun aft cannot be used, and that the
forward pivot gun cannot be fred He als'
says that lit is unsafe to fire from the port
side" The Iroquois has been ordered tc
Mare Island to be inspected by a board OF
survey.
Portland, Ore, had an unprecedented
pyrotechnic celebration Of the Fourth IN
the illumination of the snow-clad summit
of Mount Hood, 2,720 feet above the sea
level. A party of seven men assembled the
mountain, carrying 100 pounds of ordinary
red fire. for the illumination. The party
left Portland on the 3D. and it was ar
ranged that after they reached the mountain
top. two of their number should remain
there all night to touch off the patriotic fire,
This was done at half-past eleven o'clock on
the night of the Fourth, and the light was
plainly seen in Portland, titty-one miles dis
tant in straight line. 1t is said the lllum-
nation was seen eastward in Oregon, dis
tance of seventy-tive miles.
Farmers in the vicinity of the great natural
gas wells near kokomo, Ind, have cut wheat
in their fields by the light of the gas.
About $50 Pinkerton men, heavily armed
have arrived in the Connellsville coke region.
Over 100 were from Chicago and about forty
from Philadelphia. The coke operators
have decided to resume operations soon, and
expect to have enough of their old men at
work to put all the works in running order.
1t is exrected that there will be 500 Pinkerton
guards in the region.
The strike in the Warrior Run mine near
Wilkesbarre, begun two months ago, has
ended, the 400 employees returning to work
The docking-boss was discharged and other
grievances were compromised.
The treasury payments on account OF pen
sions since the 1st instant have amounted to
nearly $12,O0O,OOO. The expenditures SO
far this month exceed the receipts by over
S9OOO,0OO and there is every indication that
this excess will be maintained If not in
creased throughout the month. 1t is still
maintained at the Treasury Department
that the large expenditures to be made be-
tween now and the first of September will
reduce the treasury surplus to about S36, ,OOO,-
900 by the last named date.
The Cincinnati Tinaes-Star publishes an in
terview with E. L. Harper ex-vice president
of the Fidelity National Bank, who is now
in Jail awaiting trial. Harper is quoted as
saying she had no idea of any disaster to the
bank, and that he bought stock the day be-
fore the closing, and only two days before
put $4,000 on deposit. If the bank exam
liner had not come there would have been no
trouble. He denies that he kept his actions
secret, and said that all the directors were re-
sponsible. He also said that at the time of
the Handy wheat deal, a Cincinnati bank
vault was literally emptied. He then put in
500, 200, and the deal was carried through
successfully. Some of the men engaged in
that transaction are now foremost in con-
demning him"
Henton Miller, treasurer of Perry county,
Ind, disappeared few days ago ana is de-
faulter for S67, 900. His predecessor was also
defaulter and is now in the pententiary.
Miller was accompanied in his flight by
young wife, whom he married less than
year ago. He leaves behind large family
of children by former wife.
Christina Kreig, forty years Of age, COM
mitted suicide in New York. She left note
saying her husband had driven her to the
act.
John Garrish, an engineer on the Erie rail-
way, committed suicide near Port Jervis.
His wife is in an insane asylum.
At Clarendon, Pa, seven miles east of
Warren, on the Philadelphia and Erie rail-
road fire started in an old planning mill
Shortly afterward flames issued from the
Weaver Hotel, owned by John Mahoney.
The fire swept through the frame structures
of the little town until twenty acres were
burned over, and the only building OF any
consequence saved was the railroad depot
About 1,1OOpeople were made homeless. The
charred body of man, supposed to De
hack driver named Sullivan, was found in
the ruins of the Weaver Hotel. Mahoney
was arrested in the woods, six miles from
Clarendon, and lodg ed in Jail at Warren to
answer the charge of incendiarism. Public
rumor at Clarendon says that two weeks ago,
when liquor licenses were refused to all ap-
plicants in Warren county, Mahoney, pro-
prietor of the Weaver Hotel, threatened to
fire the town if the decision Of the court was
not reversed in two weeks.
A. collision occurred on the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore and Western railroad, near Bes-
semer, Mich, by which Daniel Tangney,
passenger, and several employees Of the road
were dangerously injured. The limited ex-
press was being followed by switch engine,
when break in the passenger engine caused
a stop and the collision.
The supreme officers of the Catholic
Knights of America, in session at st. Louis,
to select supreme spiritual adviser, supreme
legal adviser and supreme medical exami-
ner, elected Right Rev. Francis ]. Anseno,
bishop of Natchez, spiritual adviser, and
Frank Johnson, Of Jackson, Miss, legal ad-
wiser. After taking seventy-six ballots for